Taking The Charge

Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 180: We look a bit at German basketball with Alba Berlin GM Marco Baldi as well as Richard Freudenberg and Paul Zipser from Bayern Munich. To finish off there are a couple of interviews from the NBA All Star weekend with Greivis Vasquez, Pau Gasol and Andre Drummond.

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Episode 180: This week’s show looks a bit at the German league as well as the NBA All Star weekend. There is also a look ahead at the ANGT Belgrade.

Marco Baldi: 16:00

Richard Freudenberg: 48:30

Paul Zipser: 54:50

Greivis Vasquez: 1:05:00

Pau Gasol: 1:16:50

Andre Drummond: 1:28:20

This week’s music: “Say You Are Mine” by One Watt of Love – 1:34:10

Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 179: We’re still in Toronto and had our fill of NBA All Star festivities as well as the Basketball Without Borders Global Camp. There was also two more games featuring Canadian high school teams. For those only looking for the interviews, we have audio from Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Adam Silver, Gregg Popovich, Nikola Jokic, Brooks Meek and Ömer Yurtseven.

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Episode 179: We run down briefly the NBA All Star weekend as well as the Basketball Without Borders Global Camp.

Carmelo Anthony: 19:25

LeBron James: 24:30

Adam Silver: 27:05

Gregg Popovich: 1:03:35

Nikola Jokic: : 1:08:30

Brooks Meek: 1:15:25

Ömer Yurtseven: 1:22:50

This week’s music: “Birds Dont Sing” by TV Girl – 1:31:55

 

Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 178: We’re in Toronto for the NBA All-Star festivities and we caught some Canadian hoops to highlight the show this week. We talk first to Brose Baskets Bamberg CEO Rolf Beyer after the team’s big Euroleague victory over Barcelona. The other talks are with Matur Maker, coach (and Matur Maker’s guardian) Edward Smith, Sonny Barrios of CanadianBallers.com, and Stefan Smith of Bill Crothers.

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Episode 178: Lots of Canada hoops and a little bit of Australian ball this week with a dash of Euroleague.

Rolf Beyer: 4:20

Matur Maker: 12:00

Edward Smith: 24:00

Sonny Barrios: 29:10

Stefan Smith: 49:45

This week’s music: “Canada” by Low – 1:08:00

Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 177: We take a look at the history and success of the Italian club/academy Stellazzurra Basketball Academy Rome with sports director and chief recruiter Giacomo Rossi. We also get updates on 2001-born Indian talent Harshwardhan Tomar and 2000-born Romanian giant Robert Bobroczky.

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Episode 177: We start off with a look-ahead at the NBA All-Star weekend festivities, including the BWB Global Camp and Rising Stars Challenge. Euroleague had an exciting week with a repeat of last year’s final between Real Madrid and Olympiacos as well as a wild game between Laboral Kuxta Vitoria and Barcelona. We also take a look at some of the players at the 2016 TBF U16 International Tournament. And then we get into the interview with Giacomo Rossi.

Giacomo Rossi: 26:05

This week’s music: “Spot Rockers” by Cassette Tape Bandits – 1:19:10

Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 176: What a packed show! FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament draw, EuroBasket 2017 qualifying draw, David Blatt gets fired by the Cleveland Cavaliers, news about the FIBA Champions League format. Plus interviews – German referee Moritz Reiter, German Beko BBL CEO Dr. Stefan Holz, Fraport Skyliners center Johannes Voigtmann and Washington Wizards draft choice Aaron White of Telekom Baskets Bonn.

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Episode 176: We talk loads of different stuff with FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament draw, EuroBasket 2017 qualifying draw, David Blatt gets fired by the Cleveland Cavaliers, news about the FIBA Champions League format.

Moritz Reiter: 25:10

Dr. Stefan Holz: 58:00

Johannes Voigtmann: 1:39:30

Aaron White: 1:51:10

This week’s music: “Lovers Rock” by TV Girl – 2:08:50

Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 175: It’s more fun for youth hoops geeks as we go in depth (!) about the Adidas Next Generation Tournament in Kaunas with Simon Jatsch – and we finally complete the Euroleague Adventure quartet as Simon is fourth member of show to be on TTC. Sit back and enjoy.

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Episode 175: Talking about the Olympic Qualifying Tournament host countries as well as Golden State beating Cleveland, Bamberg beating Olympiacos and Maxi Kleber making his season debut. And then we go crazy on youth hoops with Simon Jatsch.

Simon Jatsch: 18:05

This week’s music: “Favorite Secrets” by Waylon Thorton – 1:44:35

Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 174: A lot of talk about youngsters playing in Germany as we look back on the NBBL All-Star Game as well as the Adidas Next Generation Tournament in L’Hospitalet and look forward to the ANGT Kaunas. We also review a bit of Round 2 in the Euroleague Top 16. Interviews interviews and more interviews this week with Isaac Bonga, Oscar Leon Da Silva, Roberts Blumbergs and Ferdinand Zykla.

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Episode 174: Talking about Euroleague Top 16 Round 2 and then Adidas Next Generation Tournament in L’Hospitalet and the ANGT in Kaunas. We also talk about the NBBL All-Star Game.

Isaac Bonga: 33:30

Oscar Leon Da Silva: 1:14:50

Lars Lagerpusch: 1:22:35

Roberts Blumbergs: 1:33:10

Ferdinand Zykla: 139:15

This week’s music: “In A Dream” by Sunshine and the Rain – 1:47:35

Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 173: The Adidas Next Generation Tournament in L’Hospitalet is still going on but we talk about the first two days of the competition. And a double interview with Nicolo Melli of Brose Baskets Bamberg and Aaron Doornekamp of Fraport Skyliners.

Here the link to my piece about the first two days at ANGT L’Hospitalet.

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Episode 173: A bit of talk about the ANGT L’Hospitalet but then the interviews.

Nicolo Melli:17:00

Aaron Doornekamp: 33:23

This week’s music: “Benny and the Jetts” by TV Girl – 1:07:50

Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 172: The time between Christmas and New Year’s is Adidas Next Generation Tournament time and we devoted the show this week to the ANGT Rome, chatting with Francesco Cavalli, collaborator with eurohopes.com.

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Episode 172: A little bit on the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Top 16 and then go in detail about the ANGT Rome.

Francesco Cavalli: 9:45

This week’s music: “Upbeat” by Jon Luc Heffernan – 1:29:40

Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 171: Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and those who don’t hope you’re having a great week. This week we look at some of the leading stories from Euroleague, ANGT and NBA. And Santa heinnews hands out some Christmas presents. For this interview, we chat with super agency Beo Basket founder Misko Ražnatović.

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Episode 171: The Turkish Airlines Euroleague is down to the Top 16 and we look at the main story from the Regular Season. We also take a very brief look at the Adidas Next Generation Tournament and the NBA. Santa heinnews then hands out some presents.

Misko Ražnatović : 17:35

This week’s music: “12 Days of Christmas” by R.Tists for Christmas – 55:40